I just got a poweredge 4200 from a surplus auction. The drives were DoD wiped so the utility partition is gone...is it true that I can't install any new hardware without the EISA utility? Does anybody know where I can get that? Nice video !
not a bad set up, and I agree, with limited time there, there's not much security for something newer and more expensive since someone could steal it and use it vs something like this where it'd be harder to make use of.
Uhh I dont see where I said that you need a new computer. Anyways I was just offering. Its not like I fucking needed to be nice and help. By the way I know plenty of people with lots of money to throw at nice servers but dont know shit about them.
that's too , i set up an old b open ox with BSD and configured it to look like it ran some oddball OS when they scan it with nmap. and it's on a seperate network on a fully open AP it's called DNS,FIREWALL,ROUTER it's basicly just a box with different jails for people to play with if they get on my network, they'll think it's some kind of important server
I actually own a netframe 6201, it has 4 processors running 300mhz each. This baby is HUGE, when i mean HUGE i mean its fucking BIG. Takes 2 people to lift it. Weights around 80-100 pounds. I have yet to get her running perfectly. I also have a netframe 3101 w/ 2 processors 300mhz each. I got them from a company that upgraded there webservers. I got like 7 hubs and 6 UPS things. Pretty neat systems. The scsi i can't figure out though, help me out?
Yea, a customer had some old SGI cabinets that I drooled over. 1) they're tall and heavy, and 2) it would need to go out of the way, like a basement, which I no longer have :( But yea, beginning to get racked boxes.
When I first got into 3D Graphics and I wanted 3D Studio MAX (Windows Version) it ran BEST under Windows NT 4.0 (which was "true" 32-BIT) you NEEDED a Pentium Pro to get that software to run at a decent clip. Thats what I wanted more than anything in 1996. A Pentium Pro system.
In Seattle in January 2007, there are 2 PC recycling stores called RE-PC (Google them) and they had boxes full of old Pentium Pro's. They were either broken or working, but they recycle them, $5 worth of GOLD in each CPU
I have a gateway e-4200 with a intel Pentium III running @ 450Mhz running in a triple boot with windows 2000 Server,Windows Xp Home Editon Sp3 and Ubuntu It's got 3 hard drives in it 40gb each
But the cool things I have two western digital 500gb external Hard Drives that I got as a upgrade from my dad who is into computers ever since the apple IIe and macintosh line
I grew up with a macintosh LC II with a apple Image writer II I still got the printer my LC II died today hard drive failed
OMG i love your Dell Poweredge 4200! I used to have one about 5 years ago until I sold it on eBay for £60 (about $100) and regretted it ever since! she was my baby lol. I bought another on eBay for a PENNY, yes 1 single penny, but the shipping was about £15 ($25) then I'm going to 'Pimp My Poweredge' and swap the intake fans at the front for a sub-woofer and tweeters, install fan-cooled (rather than passive) CPU's and spray it black... :-D Then auction it back on eBay for charity :-)
Me too! They were beasts!! And great air flow. Sad to have decommissioned it a few months ago. It was still running just fine.
You're the 2nd person I've read that refabbed the casing. One guy has instructions online (somewhere) for gutting the old electronics inside and turning it into a water-cooled desktop.
NOOOO!!! I can't believe you scrapped a Poweredge 4200! The case can be used for a million uses!!! Imagine, putting an xbox 360, a PS2, a PS3, a Dreamcast, A Megadrive, SNES etc... take all the PCB's out of the consoles and fit them into the case with controller ports and disc drives on the front! OMG that would be awsome... think im gonna look for another poweredge 4200 now :-p
Wow and I thought my server was old. Pentium D 805 @ 2.6GHz, 1GB ram, 160GB SATA HDD
soon upgrading to: Core 2 Duo E5200 @ 2.5GHz and 2GB ram for increased performance and lower power consumption
I do run some game servers on that machine in addition to web server, database, torrent downloads, teamspeak (voip) so processing performance does need to be pretty good.
At work I'm upgrading the file/print server from a dual Pentium 2 with Supermicro motherboard, 512MB ram (I think), and 5x 18GB drives in RAID 5 to a HP Proliant DL380 G2 which has dual P3 @ 1.4GHz, 2GB ram, and 6x 73GB SCSI drives in RAID 5.
can't you make a simulater of anything watch the show code lyoko about a boy who uses a supercomputer to save the world. u should make a virtual world and put files and hide it in your own cyberspace. and if you need help with it stick to the basics like a video game and your fire wall could be like miniature little monsters to protect the files and if somebody hacks into it send your important research into the internet or litarrely in cyberzero. it is what i call the barrior after the internet
the first ibm was at a public surplus auction, the other ibms were ebay -- back in the day (1999) --, the sun was also ebay, the compaq and dell (and sgi) were from coworkers. all about the networking ;)
the sun was most expensive; $400 in 2000 if i remember correctly. the ibm's were cheapest. $100 in 1999. but this doesn't include gobbling up parts over time, like processors, hard drives, etc.
Despite the prior negative feedback... I think you've made great use of older, but still very productive equipment. Maybe not the best solution for a heavy bandwidth network but pretty damn good for a storage, web and test bed environment.
lol i have an older server sadly its not a rack server it was for the days of MS-DOS i resored the poor thing it is now running windows 95 it is used for a storage server it has 32MB of ram and an 87MHz INTEL OVERDRIVE proccecor has a 3.5inch floppy drive and a 5inch floppy drive an and a NEC 8x cd drive i use this sever for storage it has 2 harddrives one is 4GB for the operateing system and the other is 80GB for storage this is a nice server i am going to retireing it with a ibm xSERIES 330
nice but Im now busy with virtualization myself you should realy try it...
Im now running one pc: p4@2.4GHZ 80gigs 725RAM and on it is now freebsd running :)and on freebsd Im running vmware with winserver2003 and a version of xp
before I had to run multiple celeron pc's but this works great now (my parents are happy now I dont use that much energy)
yea, i would except for the capitol cost upfront. plus ... anyone considered that hypervisors are still architecture specific? aka. no emulating a SPARC version of Solaris.
Dosen't matter how old the tapes are, we still use them today because they are reliable, not because there NEW technology, the tape backup goes back to the 70's on old reel to reels. Stick with tapes as backups because they are more reliable then standard HDs.
I would. Standard HDD's are products of the development of tapes, as they too, are magnetic. If they were not better we wouldn't change from tape reels to HDD's in the first place, would we?
hey! i was just wondering... i ordered the solaris 10 os dvd (free) to try it out as i am building my home datacenter and i ordered 500 licenses with it (dont ask)... i was wondering if ill end up getting 500 dvds or one dvd with a sheet printed with 500 licenses.. cuz i dont want so many dvds at my place!!
mmm, well it all depends on your agreement with them. most have subtle clauses that basically translate to their ability to filter protocols (typically at the application layer, but sometimes lower). ISP's block residential customers from standing up mail servers by blocking smtp ports, etc. it's only illegal if the company's act in some discriminatory way or privacy way, like only blocking gay people's email, or looking inside your legitimate mail traffic (without a warrant)
Can U Explanine how to work Your Honeypot, it's really great, I'm planning runnig me honeypot and I'm looking any config and website about this. (I apologize for my english)
Noticed you have the PPro versions, both mine are 8640-OPT dual PII 330's but either way they are sweet machines and not bad on power. I had a an older quad PPro HP server and it ate tons of power, had to go on a 20 amp dedicated circuit.
Serious? How much did your util bill go up? I don't even have a ball-park idea b/c the electricity is included at the place where I'm keeping them ...
When I had the quad PPro HP with 20 amp plug it ran $80 more a month to run it loaded with drives, weighed like 205 lbs on it's wheels. I think it was a 1200 watt redundant PSU, 3 400 watters in one PSU chassis. Too much for a simple webserver so I went to the 8640-PB0 dual PII IBM PC Server 330 and it seems like the power bill went down about $60 a month (and we live in a very low per-Kwh cost area). The HP is now in eastern Iowa somewhere near the twin cities.
Nice man.. Gots lots of stuff.. Here's what I found.. Used to run alot of equipemtn.. but my electric bill was like 300$..So.. I invested in better stuff.. Moved everything to about two machines.. Cut my cost in half.. and if I even went higher up on the equipment.. I could even move everything to one server.. BTW.. Check out Windows Home Server. I just installed it the other day and I've very happy with it running. It's very fast and manages memory pretty good.
Yeah, "Why do you need so many computers?" I get this question all the time (mostly from my wife). I always answer, "You can't have a network with just one computer, and two get lonely." You need a whole 2 storey house full of them, in every room like I've got (Sun Microsystems galore). Solaris is the best OS I've found so far and I've tried HEAPS.
LOL my girlfriend is ALWAYS asking me why I need a server. She just doesn't see the beauty of a quad processor P3 xeon humming away... storing all your files.... I usually get a slap when I reply that servers don't bitch and moan as much as she does lol
Well the die wasn't. It was on a PCB as big as the cartridge with some extra chips on it (Cache I think). But you needed all that for the chip to work anyway...
nice older stuff , still very useful today :) QC
Quaaludedude714 5 days ago
I just got a poweredge 4200 from a surplus auction. The drives were DoD wiped so the utility partition is gone...is it true that I can't install any new hardware without the EISA utility? Does anybody know where I can get that? Nice video !
VeronicaDeVore 3 weeks ago
i may have a mouse u seek,:) SEND ME AN EMAIL
selenaclement 4 months ago
not a bad set up, and I agree, with limited time there, there's not much security for something newer and more expensive since someone could steal it and use it vs something like this where it'd be harder to make use of.
experimental0000 8 months ago
any update on your awesome setup? :)
bamdadkhan 10 months ago
continuing,
5. (Broken) 1.2ghz Athlon XP 2x00+, Nvidia something, 2gb RAM, 2x 300gb hdd (number 1 is dead), 1TB External HDD. Thats all I know.
6. Apple PowerMac G4 @ 500ghz, 256mb RAM, ATi Rage Pro (AGP), 40gb HDD, Mac OS X 10.3 (based on linux). Again, thats all i know.
and my dad has a crappy acer with a dead battery.
Macintosh3745 10 months ago
my crap
1. SECURITY SYSTEMS: ACER TravelMate 2300 - Celeron M @ 1.30GHZ, 1GB RAM, 512KB L2, 400MHZ FSB) 500GB USB HDD, 120GB Internal ATA HDD.
2. IBM NetVista 6xxx (not quite shore), 512mb RAM, 1.66GHZ P4, 50GB HDD , Windows 2000 Pro. (Thats all I know)
3. 1.40GHZ AMD Athlon XP 2600+, 512MB RAM, Windows ME and XP, 50gb HDD. (Again, thats all I know)
4. Toshiba Satellite C650, Intel Core i3 Mobile (2 phsyical, 2 virtual) 250gb HDD, 2gb RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium.
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Macintosh3745 10 months ago
what kind is joey
simplex237 11 months ago
what kind are those ibms
simplex237 11 months ago
What kind of PowerEdge is that?
TheChromebuster 11 months ago
No Way.. I used to have one of those Dell PowerEdge servers. Is it a 5400 or something like that. PROPER!!!!! Loud as I recall ;-)
daveRobinsonUK1 1 year ago
very cool setup! trying to make a serversetup my self.... mby you could help me a little????
BlasterProduction09 1 year ago
i see a geek squad UPS...
derekjackson2008 1 year ago
I love it how you act like people are welcome to hack your things! ;)
My favorite quote: "if you want to try and hack into it you've got a choice of basically three different operating systems"
iTech278 1 year ago
How much power does it consume?
paroxyzm21 1 year ago
whats that laptop down there? i think its a dell because my Dell Inspiron 8500 looks a lot like that one.
Dell0304 1 year ago
Them UltraSPARC workstations are awesome!!
tribalmasters 2 years ago
very cool stuff
FixersBigBalls 2 years ago 2
You left the heat sink off! :O Well, as long as you learned your lesson. I did that once xD.
Technoguy3 2 years ago
Lol. Who does that?
goddo2305 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
solaris is linux are you dumb or something
a2freaky 2 years ago
@a2freaky solaris is a unix based OS, look it up on wiki before you flame
MattyLaws 2 years ago
hay dude can u help me do a server?
i got the pc i need the soft and stuff 4 it
alltimegamer247 2 years ago
The video is almost 3 years old. I doubt he even remembers he made this. I could help you if he does not.
frosty9595 2 years ago
u dont need a new pc 2 do a server dude . im going to make my old pc 2 a server and a some body that has a biger server replyed back 2 me .,.
alltimegamer247 2 years ago
Uhh I dont see where I said that you need a new computer. Anyways I was just offering. Its not like I fucking needed to be nice and help. By the way I know plenty of people with lots of money to throw at nice servers but dont know shit about them.
frosty9595 2 years ago
that's too , i set up an old b open ox with BSD and configured it to look like it ran some oddball OS when they scan it with nmap. and it's on a seperate network on a fully open AP it's called DNS,FIREWALL,ROUTER it's basicly just a box with different jails for people to play with if they get on my network, they'll think it's some kind of important server
coldironhands1 2 years ago
I actually own a netframe 6201, it has 4 processors running 300mhz each. This baby is HUGE, when i mean HUGE i mean its fucking BIG. Takes 2 people to lift it. Weights around 80-100 pounds. I have yet to get her running perfectly. I also have a netframe 3101 w/ 2 processors 300mhz each. I got them from a company that upgraded there webservers. I got like 7 hubs and 6 UPS things. Pretty neat systems. The scsi i can't figure out though, help me out?
Skylord12345 2 years ago
Yea, a customer had some old SGI cabinets that I drooled over. 1) they're tall and heavy, and 2) it would need to go out of the way, like a basement, which I no longer have :( But yea, beginning to get racked boxes.
vap0rtranz 2 years ago
There is about $5 of gold in that old pentium pro CPU. Shhh!! its a secret!
mrjustin5 2 years ago 7
hehe. Does Moore know? and does the price of gold follow his Law?
vap0rtranz 2 years ago
You know they cost $1,000 new... when bought in quantities of 1000 or more! lol Retail price was about $1,299...
carl0071 2 years ago
When I first got into 3D Graphics and I wanted 3D Studio MAX (Windows Version) it ran BEST under Windows NT 4.0 (which was "true" 32-BIT) you NEEDED a Pentium Pro to get that software to run at a decent clip. Thats what I wanted more than anything in 1996. A Pentium Pro system.
In Seattle in January 2007, there are 2 PC recycling stores called RE-PC (Google them) and they had boxes full of old Pentium Pro's. They were either broken or working, but they recycle them, $5 worth of GOLD in each CPU
mrjustin5 2 years ago
Ditto! I interned at a shop that ran AutoCAD on NT and they had to be PPro boxes, nothing less.
Recycling shops are awesome and Seattle is like electronics central. There a State surplus around too? :)
vap0rtranz 2 years ago
I have a gateway e-4200 with a intel Pentium III running @ 450Mhz running in a triple boot with windows 2000 Server,Windows Xp Home Editon Sp3 and Ubuntu It's got 3 hard drives in it 40gb each
But the cool things I have two western digital 500gb external Hard Drives that I got as a upgrade from my dad who is into computers ever since the apple IIe and macintosh line
I grew up with a macintosh LC II with a apple Image writer II I still got the printer my LC II died today hard drive failed
Jcc3279 2 years ago
OMG i love your Dell Poweredge 4200! I used to have one about 5 years ago until I sold it on eBay for £60 (about $100) and regretted it ever since! she was my baby lol. I bought another on eBay for a PENNY, yes 1 single penny, but the shipping was about £15 ($25) then I'm going to 'Pimp My Poweredge' and swap the intake fans at the front for a sub-woofer and tweeters, install fan-cooled (rather than passive) CPU's and spray it black... :-D Then auction it back on eBay for charity :-)
carl0071 2 years ago
Me too! They were beasts!! And great air flow. Sad to have decommissioned it a few months ago. It was still running just fine.
You're the 2nd person I've read that refabbed the casing. One guy has instructions online (somewhere) for gutting the old electronics inside and turning it into a water-cooled desktop.
vap0rtranz 2 years ago
NOOOO!!! I can't believe you scrapped a Poweredge 4200! The case can be used for a million uses!!! Imagine, putting an xbox 360, a PS2, a PS3, a Dreamcast, A Megadrive, SNES etc... take all the PCB's out of the consoles and fit them into the case with controller ports and disc drives on the front! OMG that would be awsome... think im gonna look for another poweredge 4200 now :-p
carl0071 2 years ago
It's not scrapped -- yet. Still have the whole 4200 and guts packed away. If you're interested, let me know.
vap0rtranz 2 years ago
Wow and I thought my server was old. Pentium D 805 @ 2.6GHz, 1GB ram, 160GB SATA HDD
soon upgrading to: Core 2 Duo E5200 @ 2.5GHz and 2GB ram for increased performance and lower power consumption
I do run some game servers on that machine in addition to web server, database, torrent downloads, teamspeak (voip) so processing performance does need to be pretty good.
TehMG 2 years ago
I run CentOS 5.2 on that server.
At work I'm upgrading the file/print server from a dual Pentium 2 with Supermicro motherboard, 512MB ram (I think), and 5x 18GB drives in RAID 5 to a HP Proliant DL380 G2 which has dual P3 @ 1.4GHz, 2GB ram, and 6x 73GB SCSI drives in RAID 5.
TehMG 2 years ago
I could watch videos about old servers all day :)
Really cool that you got them running, awesome video. 5 stars!
thisisnotanick 2 years ago 2
can't you make a simulater of anything watch the show code lyoko about a boy who uses a supercomputer to save the world. u should make a virtual world and put files and hide it in your own cyberspace. and if you need help with it stick to the basics like a video game and your fire wall could be like miniature little monsters to protect the files and if somebody hacks into it send your important research into the internet or litarrely in cyberzero. it is what i call the barrior after the internet
cooldude1234333 3 years ago
where did u get the ibm?
or all of em?
brewbsd 3 years ago
the first ibm was at a public surplus auction, the other ibms were ebay -- back in the day (1999) --, the sun was also ebay, the compaq and dell (and sgi) were from coworkers. all about the networking ;)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
this is a great video dude
thanx!! i want ur ibm and power edge
brewbsd 3 years ago
i will be giving the ibm's and dell away when my xen box is up and running. yes, giving away! (shipping not included ;)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
i used to have an ibm original mouse, it was serial, so i threw it away years ago :( sorry!
As for the sparc, i agree, can't beat a good old sparc to just keep on going and going!
braindigitalis 3 years ago
it does keep going. hope to get it running solaris zones soon ...
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
how much were they
fearn45 3 years ago
the sun was most expensive; $400 in 2000 if i remember correctly. the ibm's were cheapest. $100 in 1999. but this doesn't include gobbling up parts over time, like processors, hard drives, etc.
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
those look so old but da nice i want the solaris one
cotton509 3 years ago 2
I have to say: I loved that „damn! :D .
5/5 just for that damn! and blinking lights thing!
ErnestasL 3 years ago
You do sound kinda gay but u know what that dousnt matter :P.
Nice server ... arangement, ive been trying to make awebserver for months and i can never get it to work lol
sousuke121 3 years ago
apace, easiest thing to use, you can use it on any OS there is except maybe apple shit, but maybe even apple shit
coldironhands1 3 years ago
It's Apache, lol
But better just get XAMPP if you're planning on using it on Windows.
stathisch 3 years ago
I have to hand it to you, that's probaly the smartest thing to do with all of those power guzzling machines
actingman93 3 years ago
Despite the prior negative feedback... I think you've made great use of older, but still very productive equipment. Maybe not the best solution for a heavy bandwidth network but pretty damn good for a storage, web and test bed environment.
Good Job
TwoTonCrackBaby 3 years ago
Go the 1600 proliant. Mine has been demoted to an internet gateway machine now, but it was a whopper for it's day.
loganm350 3 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
some old stuff
DOOMKOOMA 3 years ago
you sound like a royal homo.
"two WHOPPING MEGAHERTS" faggit
dgajr93 3 years ago
oh i do luv the ability to censor people. go on; shoot.
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
"two HUNDRED whopping megaherts"
(dgajr93 = Fail)
defconx3 3 years ago
You know on my room I have 3 computers,
1. DELL P4 512MB RAM 120GB & 160GB HDD
2. COMPAQ 384MB RAM 15GB HDD
3. HP 256MB RAM 40GB HDD
starkist1480 3 years ago
why don't you try to have an internet cafe in your home its a good business you know
parotpalan 3 years ago
You sound weird.
sclek2007 3 years ago
He's one of them. The kind that don't like boobies...... not that there's anything wrong with that.
blueguy2006j 3 years ago
ah. and you're one of those commies, but there's nothing wrong with that. ;)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
lol i have an older server sadly its not a rack server it was for the days of MS-DOS i resored the poor thing it is now running windows 95 it is used for a storage server it has 32MB of ram and an 87MHz INTEL OVERDRIVE proccecor has a 3.5inch floppy drive and a 5inch floppy drive an and a NEC 8x cd drive i use this sever for storage it has 2 harddrives one is 4GB for the operateing system and the other is 80GB for storage this is a nice server i am going to retireing it with a ibm xSERIES 330
DRNEGOLICIS 3 years ago
nice but Im now busy with virtualization myself you should realy try it...
Im now running one pc: p4@2.4GHZ 80gigs 725RAM and on it is now freebsd running :)and on freebsd Im running vmware with winserver2003 and a version of xp
before I had to run multiple celeron pc's but this works great now (my parents are happy now I dont use that much energy)
ClonedThing 3 years ago
yea, i would except for the capitol cost upfront. plus ... anyone considered that hypervisors are still architecture specific? aka. no emulating a SPARC version of Solaris.
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
Nice vid, thanks for this, most interesting
vitiate128 3 years ago
Dosen't matter how old the tapes are, we still use them today because they are reliable, not because there NEW technology, the tape backup goes back to the 70's on old reel to reels. Stick with tapes as backups because they are more reliable then standard HDs.
marshalauth 3 years ago
i wouldn't disagree :)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
I would. Standard HDD's are products of the development of tapes, as they too, are magnetic. If they were not better we wouldn't change from tape reels to HDD's in the first place, would we?
Conclusion: Get an external HDD for backups. XD
stathisch 3 years ago
You sound gay are you single
jamkidaruen 3 years ago 2
You rite :)) LOL
Kienlanhdao 3 years ago
i hope that's not a double chin. ;)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
well i'm happy if that's what you mean :)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
Weeks sauce!!
ShotgunnerD 3 years ago
hey! i was just wondering... i ordered the solaris 10 os dvd (free) to try it out as i am building my home datacenter and i ordered 500 licenses with it (dont ask)... i was wondering if ill end up getting 500 dvds or one dvd with a sheet printed with 500 licenses.. cuz i dont want so many dvds at my place!!
nagarjun424 3 years ago
what do you need 500 lisences for?? you'll prolly end up with 500 cd's too..
Droppyk 3 years ago
i got the package... its just one dvd... :-)
nagarjun424 3 years ago
How do you manage to get an ISP that allows you to run servers out of it's connection???
mike4ty4 3 years ago
dyndns? non-trusted ports?
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
"dyndns? non-trusted ports?"
So you're saying you try to hide it and hope you don't get caught?!
mike4ty4 3 years ago
how cars if some one puts up en file server that maybe 10-20 ppl a week will logon to?
GegoXaren 3 years ago
Eh, I didn't know that ISP's forbid people to run servers at their connections. Actually, they can't forbid anyone from doing it-it's illegal to. :)
stathisch 3 years ago
mmm, well it all depends on your agreement with them. most have subtle clauses that basically translate to their ability to filter protocols (typically at the application layer, but sometimes lower). ISP's block residential customers from standing up mail servers by blocking smtp ports, etc. it's only illegal if the company's act in some discriminatory way or privacy way, like only blocking gay people's email, or looking inside your legitimate mail traffic (without a warrant)
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
I guess you're right.
Good thing I live in Greece and only have to suffer traffic shaping on some sites. :P
stathisch 3 years ago
my server is just a fujitshu siemens pc with a 2.4ghz processor and 752mb RAM and 60gig hdd running windows xp home edition (tweeked 2 the max)
ClonedThing 3 years ago
O rly?
stathisch 3 years ago
Hi
Can U Explanine how to work Your Honeypot, it's really great, I'm planning runnig me honeypot and I'm looking any config and website about this. (I apologize for my english)
herkipl 4 years ago
you song like a fuguet
pepemark 4 years ago
so wats wrong with it
tikiman963 4 years ago
this is so wrong, considering the context of Douglas Merrill
vap0rtranz 3 years ago
Have 2 IBM PC Server 330's myself used for web server and backup then I have my dual PIII-800 big server for data storage. Nice setup.
RetiredAFGuy 4 years ago
Noticed you have the PPro versions, both mine are 8640-OPT dual PII 330's but either way they are sweet machines and not bad on power. I had a an older quad PPro HP server and it ate tons of power, had to go on a 20 amp dedicated circuit.
RetiredAFGuy 4 years ago
Serious? How much did your util bill go up? I don't even have a ball-park idea b/c the electricity is included at the place where I'm keeping them ...
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
When I had the quad PPro HP with 20 amp plug it ran $80 more a month to run it loaded with drives, weighed like 205 lbs on it's wheels. I think it was a 1200 watt redundant PSU, 3 400 watters in one PSU chassis. Too much for a simple webserver so I went to the 8640-PB0 dual PII IBM PC Server 330 and it seems like the power bill went down about $60 a month (and we live in a very low per-Kwh cost area). The HP is now in eastern Iowa somewhere near the twin cities.
RetiredAFGuy 4 years ago
Thats gears worth about a tenner bin the lot
therealdjessence 4 years ago
exactly! duh
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
Nice man.. Gots lots of stuff.. Here's what I found.. Used to run alot of equipemtn.. but my electric bill was like 300$..So.. I invested in better stuff.. Moved everything to about two machines.. Cut my cost in half.. and if I even went higher up on the equipment.. I could even move everything to one server.. BTW.. Check out Windows Home Server. I just installed it the other day and I've very happy with it running. It's very fast and manages memory pretty good.
daveolso 4 years ago
Sounds like someone bought into Microsoft and the bigger, newer, faster mantra. heh
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
Not really im a apple man
therealdjessence 4 years ago
YEP HES A VIRGIN!!!
john5922475 4 years ago
no vids; you lose
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
Yeah, "Why do you need so many computers?" I get this question all the time (mostly from my wife). I always answer, "You can't have a network with just one computer, and two get lonely." You need a whole 2 storey house full of them, in every room like I've got (Sun Microsystems galore). Solaris is the best OS I've found so far and I've tried HEAPS.
PS
Do I detect the remnants of an Aussie accent?
TheYouuTubeRipper 4 years ago 2
Aussie? One day it's southern; another day german.
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
Is there an E450 in that house? *drools*
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
Unfortunately not but I'm constantly searching ebay for new stuff. It's amazing what you can pick up on ebay cheap.
Sorry about mistaking your accent. I am Australian and I always get asked if I'm British so I know how you feel.
Do you know much about TCP/IP? I guess you must know quite a bit but how into it are you?
This is probably a conversation better suited to pm and not YouTube comments so I'll message you.
TheYouuTubeRipper 4 years ago
you alive?
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
LOL my girlfriend is ALWAYS asking me why I need a server. She just doesn't see the beauty of a quad processor P3 xeon humming away... storing all your files.... I usually get a slap when I reply that servers don't bitch and moan as much as she does lol
carl0071 2 years ago
I also have a Proliant 1600, great machine for simple use.
melbourneradio 4 years ago
386's and 486's even got pretty hot... Pentium 2's and older P3's came in a big cartridge, your Ppro is smaller :P .
colinstu 4 years ago
I said the "die" is bigger. You don't honestly think the P2/3 were as big as their cartridges, do you?? Take one apart. *hehe*
vap0rtranz 4 years ago
Well the die wasn't. It was on a PCB as big as the cartridge with some extra chips on it (Cache I think). But you needed all that for the chip to work anyway...
colinstu 4 years ago
Cool stuff. A walk down memory lane.
gldrumm 4 years ago